Bug 457597 (CVE-2008-1232)

Summary:	CVE-2008-1232 tomcat: Cross-Site-Scripting enabled by sendError call
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Marc Schoenefeld <mschoene>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dbhole, devrim, djorm, dwalluck, fnasser, kreilly, rafaels
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html
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Bug Depends On:	457727, 457728, 458088, 458089, 458097, 458099, 458100, 458443, 458444, 458445, 460125, 460126, 460127, 460131, 460132, 470238, 470239
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Description Marc Schoenefeld 2008-08-01 18:09:20 UTC

The message argument of HttpServletResponse.sendError() call is not only
displayed on the error page, but is also used for the reason-phrase of HTTP
response. This may include characters that are illegal in HTTP headers. It is
possible for a specially crafted message to result in arbitrary content being
injected into the HTTP response. For a successful XSS attack, unfiltered user
supplied data must be included in the message argument.

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2008-08-04 06:29:11 UTC

Public now via: http://tomcat.apache.org/security-6.html

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2008-08-04 06:48:02 UTC

Also affects older Tomcat versions:
  http://tomcat.apache.org/security-5.html
  http://tomcat.apache.org/security-4.html

Comment 4 Marc Schoenefeld 2008-08-04 16:02:11 UTC

Patch available here:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=680947&view=rev

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-09-05 17:10:49 UTC

tomcat6-6.0.18-1.1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat6-6.0.18-1.1.fc9

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2008-09-11 17:17:32 UTC

tomcat6-6.0.18-1.1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2008-09-15 18:12:12 UTC

tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.1.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.1.fc8

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2008-09-15 20:13:49 UTC

tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc9

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2008-09-15 20:16:21 UTC

tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc8

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2008-09-16 23:24:51 UTC

tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2008-09-16 23:28:18 UTC

tomcat5-5.5.27-0jpp.2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2010-08-04 21:31:09 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Certificate System 7.3

Via RHSA-2010:0602 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0602.html